John joseph hookee



UNITED vSTATES PATENT OFFICEo JOHN JOSEPH HOOKER, OF TIDESIVELL, COUNTY OF DERBY, ENGLAND.

MIRROR FORy OBTAINING TRUE OR POSl-TIVE REFLECTIONS.

SPECIFICATION form-ing part of Letters Patent N o. 370,623, dated September 27. 1887. Application filed Angustil, i886. Serial'Ni. 211,808. (Model.) Patented in England March l2, 1886, No. 3,517.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J onN JOSEPH HOOKER, Catholic priest, 'a subject of the Queen-of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Tideswell, in

the county of Derby, England, have invented certain new and useful Mirrors for Obtaining True or Positive Reflections, (for which I have made application for patent in Great Britain, N o. 3,517, dated March 12, 1886,) of which the ro following is a specification.

My invention relates to mirrors constructed to give to persons looking into them true, or what maybe termed positive, reflections of' themselves and of objects placed within their i 5 field or scope of reflection, and refers to theform of mirror whereby such effects are obtained, and not tothe material of which mirrors may be constructed. I Inemirrors at present in use the reflection of an object is obtained from a single reflecting-surface, which forall practi-ml purposes is a level or flat surface. Such mirrors, instead of giving what I term a positive reflection, give what may be termed a negative reflection. For instance, av watch would be reflected with the position of the tigures and motion of the hands reversed, printed matter would be reversed by negative reflection back tothe fac-simile of the type from which it was printed, and similarly the features, limbs, or movements of the human body are-reversed by reflection from left to right and right to left. v

The object of' my invention is to produce mirrors of a kind-suitable for ordinary use or enjoyment which will give to persons look- Aing into them true or positive reflections of themselves and of every object within their field or scope-that is, persons would sec themselves reflected exactly as they appear to others, a watch would be reflected with the position of its figures and the motion of its hands not reversed, and printed matter would appear in the mirror as on the paper, and similarly the features or limbs and movements of a human person would appear in the mir- ,ror exactly as they appear in reality-that is,

the right arm of the real figure would appear as the right arm in the reflected figure, and so forth.

The accompanying drawings illustrate a 5o modeol constructing a mirror according to my invention.

Figure 1 represents a top view, and Fig. 2 a front elevation.

I provide two flat reflecting-surfaces, A B, Vmeeting at accurate right angles, or at any angle which is an exact equal division of a right angle-such as one-half, one-fourth, or one-eighth of' a right angle-which may, if desired, for convenience of construction, be 6o made up of two separate ilat reflecting-sur-- faces fitted to each other, so as too form two planes meeting so closely as to touch each other, without any frame-work intervening, at accurate right angles or equal divisions of a right angle, as above mentioned, or, if desired, the two planes meeting at the required angle may be parts or wings of' the same reflectingplate, the object being to obtain two reflecting-surfaces converging and meeting at accu- 7o rate right angles or equal divisions of a right angle, as above mentioned, the reflection being obtained from the inner or converging surfaces, a b. These two surfaces form the mirror, which gives within one or more of the reflected angles the true or positive reflection of any object within im field or scope, as already described. These positive mirrors necessarily contain two or more negative mirrors, and the negative or the positive reflection 8o may be obtained, asfdesired, by either changing the position of the mirror or by changing A the position of' the person or object placed before it.

These mirrors may be used for all purposes S5 for which the ordinary looking-glass is used. They may also-be placed in shop-windows or other places for exhibiting articles, the appearance of each object placed within the range of reflection being multiplied by four 9o or more, while the show-spaee-snpposing the angle to be the accurate right angle-is iucreased to the square of the front-age, thereby producing very effective results.

I claim--h The herein-described compound positive reflection mirror, consisting of' two converging reflecting-surfaces meeting closely at the iutersection of their planes and rigidly conto this specification in the presence of twosub neoted at an exacta right angle to each other, or scrbing witnesses ab an angle which is an exact equal division of JOHN JOSEPH HOOKER. a right; angie--such as one-half or one'fourth `Witnessesz 5 or one-eighth of a right angle-substantially PHILIP HEATON FLINT,

as herein set forth. MICHAEL HIGGINS,

In testimony whereof I havesgned my name Both of Tdeswell, Stockport. 

